All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 170
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The Building Services Awards
The 2008 Building Services Awards will take place on Monday 23 June at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane.
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Archive TitlesMy way
Martin Ede is the new operations director for Willmott Dixon’s south Midlands division. He joins from Balfour Beatty
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Archive TitlesWhy specify that?
No apologies for including four glazing applications this month, there’s some stunning facades here: and they’re all in the public realm
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SNAFU
“We wanted Tim to take the lead in promoting the Construction and Build Environment Diploma”“…And we thought it might help him relate to the youngsters if we sent him to a councillor to get in touch with his ‘inner child’”“Unfortunately his ‘inner child’ was called Dwayne’!”“I’m not writing your poxy ...
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Sell that waste
Constructionresale.co.uk is the latest website for buying and selling excess, used or reclaimed construction materials and products.
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Phone the wives
I feel great sympathy with Philip Cutts, (letters, CM October) as I have regularly stopped to tell ‘small builders’ that they are putting themselves in danger.
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Archive TitlesIn with the new
The CIOB is updating its corporate governance, which means replacing its 40+ board of trustees with just 16.You can play your part by volunteering or voting for candidates
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Archive TitlesMug of the month
Those people at Bovis Lend Lease really know how to spoil their staff.
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Archive TitlesThis month ... in pictures
Among the four final projects competing for The People’s £50 Million Lottery Giveaway on ITV last month was a potential international icon of cutting-edge architecture, technology and sustainability.
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The month... in words
Why is it that whenever there’s a f***ing sports stadium in the world HOK do it? London is strong enough to do something else. It’s crap. It’ll be quite nice, but not what it should be. Architect Will Alsop on the controversial design for the 2012 Olympics main stadium.
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The month... in numbers
25 The percentage of specialist contractors who claim they are waiting over two months to get paid for completed work, according to a National Specialist Contractors’ Council report.
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A monkey responds
Keith Pickavance certainly knows how to alienate a big section of the CIOB’s membership (‘Is Your Planner a Monkey?’, CM, October 2007).
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Titles matter
With reference to your leader ‘What’s in a title?’ in the November/December issue. It prompts me to answer: ‘Quite a lot, actually’.
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Olympics makes progress
The ODA has made great strides this month, but there’s still been a few trips...
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Archive TitlesMountains of madness
CM is giving up the pizzas and pies and going into training for the Coins 3 Peaks Challenge.
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Archive TitlesLean in Leeds
At The Gateway development in Leeds, a collaborative approach is helping Shepherd Construction apply lean techniques to cut waste and costs
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Archive TitlesLean manufacture
When this building is completed later this year, the two towers will have grown together.
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Archive TitlesNo hassle news
In the fast-paced world of construction it can be tough keeping up with the latest industry news and developments. That’s why we at CM want to do the hard work for you.